Aleksei Dmitry Melnik 
Nintendo‘s president stated last year that he saw promise in the metaverse. The Pokémon Company was able to witness the NFT market expand in 2022 by being patient, and a year later, the Pokémon Company published a job opening requiring the expertise of Web3, NFT, and Metaverse.
Is this the conclusion of a protracted period of reflection? Although the enormous enthusiasm for NFTs among many firms throughout the world has waned, preparations and experimentation continue to take place.
Sony, for example, submitted a patent in November 2022 to “track unique, in-game digital assets utilizing tokens on a distributed ledger.” Before Sony, other firms like Atari decided to give up and join the wagon, and Axie Infinity is shifting its model to a free and readily available system.
When confronted with the dilemma of play-to-earn and its zero-sum game problem, prudence appears to be in order. As Niantic (the inventor of Pokémon Go’s metaverse project) received $300 million in February 2022, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa discussed the metaverse notion. During this interview, he stated that he saw an opportunity in virtual worlds but did not believe it was feasible to fully transmit “the Nintendo perspective” at this time.
Pokémon is Opening a Job in This Field
The Pokémon Company issued a job posting for Corporate Development Principal on their Linkedin profile on March 11, 2023. Additionally, in addition to the numerous tasks and hefty obligations requested by this role, you must have “Extensive expertise and awareness of Web3, particularly blockchain and NFT technologies, and/or metaverse.”
This hiring takes place in a much larger global environment and hence does not reveal anything about the Pokémon Company’s future orientation. Having said that, the concept of NFT is now part of the knowledge necessary for a job of such great responsibility! Without bonuses, the basic compensation will range from $150,000 to $224,000 each year, depending on the professional experience.
